Pages

Loving Me For Me.

﻿

Plus is Equal﻿

As an over developed teenager, trying to love my body was
next to impossible. Everyone around me was a size 4, while I was already
wearing misses sizes. Even though I was extremely active, and healthy, I always
felt my body was working against me. I remember how I wanted to
be so called “normal” sized, so I’d fit in with the smaller girls.

For years I hated my body, and tried to conform to other
people’s ideas of what my body should be.Now, I refuse to hide or be ashamed.We give way too much power to others when it comes to our bodies. It’s
your body not theirs. You decided what you want to do. If you’re fat, be fat
and love it! If you’re small love it too. And if you don’t like your body,
change it because YOU want to change it, not because some small minded person
advised you to do so. That’s why I love the body positive movement. It’s such
an amazing time to be a plus size woman. So many positive role models big and
small, encouraging women to love themselves in a world encouraging us to hate
who we are.

Lane Bryant is one of the companies helping to change
society’s views of plus size women. I remember having to wear Lane Bryant
growing up, and being so embarrassed. I was always thankful for finding items
from their store that fit me, but I wanted to fit in. Most of the items were
outdated or something my mother would (and did) wear.However, over the past few years, Lane Bryant
has started to really pay attention to their customers, and the plus size
community. I actually find myself going on Lane Bryant’s website and finding multiple
pieces that I absolutely love! I never thought I would say that. Many of their
items are fashion forward, trendy, and hug your curves in all the right places.
I’m truly astounded by how far they’ve come and am excited to see what else
they will come up with next. Here are some Lane Bryant pieces I styled. I hope
you like them just as much as I do!

I could not appear in public in any of these outfits because each would call attention to me or at least I'd feel like my outfit was shouting "here I am so look at me." It's alright for me to not want to wear these outfits. The lady in the article is a beautiful woman.

My ex girlfriend was just like you. unfortunately we broke up because she seems not to like what she was and wanted to have a surgery. I disagree with her so we broke up. keep it up and don't forget to workout at the gym.

Hi Mickey, I'm in same situation. Love the clothes and wish they had been there when younger. The styles don't fit my current career and age today. You didn't mention size looking for, but I'm size 26 usually (depends on manufacturer) and have found J.Jill and Coldwater Creek good options. Sometimes Catherine's but lot of their clothing is still for "mature" dresser.

Can you please post your replies without so many periods in your "sentence"? For those of us who actually read things the way that the punctuation implies, it causes us to stop. After. Every. Word or two. It gets very annoying and hard to follow. Thanks, sorry to nit pick! :-)

I think this is fabulous and I'm so glad that we are being taught to love our bodies and not try to hide them in oversized, unattractive clothing. The outfits are very fashionable and very fashion forward. It appears that there are some people (based on their opinions here) are stuck in the "we don't like 'fat' girls" mindset. Some people are very much afraid of change. Some people embrace it, arms wide open. Learning to love yourself, in spite of what is told to you, is something to behold. I'm a few months shy of 50, and even though I work out 5 days a week, I understand my body and know I will never (nor have I ever been) a size 2. I'm almost 6' tall and solidly built. And finally, FINALLY, I can look in the mirror and love what I see... Flab, wrinkles, muscle tone, graying hair... the works. I am beautiful, no matter what you say... Pay it forward and leave the naysayers wondering wth just happened... :-))) - acwhite77

She is definitely beautiful but all she has done is to show that big girls can dress beautifully as well. Instead of wearing that looks awkward dresses should be chosen on what makes you look good not what makes a celebrity look good. That said in no way this should encourage such obesity. Healthy lifestyle starts with healthy body and though she seems very fit mentally she still need to lose a lot of weight.